from Werner Stark, Sociology of Religion: A Study of Christendom (Fordham University Press, 1966-72) vol. 1, p. 188
As democratic convictions became
settled . . . 'the people' emerged increasingly as the true sovereign,
and the conception gained ground that 'the people' is sane and sound,
and its voice, at least to some extent, is sacred.
from Friederich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, § 863
The values of the weak prevail because the strong have taken them over as devices of leadership.
Analyzing Power Relations: Five Frameworks
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Deleuze & Guattari Vincent/McMahon Piaget/Vygotsky Michael Mann This site | Three regimes (primitive, despotic, capitalist) Left vs. Right: (topologies of the two-party system) Cognitive modalities (topologies of the two-party system) Four networks of power Five genetic ontologies (topologies of the two-party system) |
the Psychological Correlates of the Two-Party System
| Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age ( (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010) We are changing, of course,
but that does not necessarily mean we are progressing. Combined
with all the forces that today exhort us to look into our own private
lives, the “civilization of change” has stimulated a massive interest
in psychic disorders. It can be heard from all quarters, and it
takes form in the many marketplaces that offer inner balance and
tranquility. Today, many of our socials tensions have been
expressed in terms of implosion and depressive collapse or, in a
similar way, its flip side: explosions of violence, rage, the search
for new sensations. pp. 185-6
As addictive explosion reflects depressive implosion, so the drug-taker’s search for sensation reflects the depressed person’s lack of feeling. Depression, that crossroads of pathology, serves as a canvas upon which to sketch out the changes in modern subjectivity, the displacement of the hard task of being healthy. In a context in which choice is the norm and inner insecurity the price, these pathologies make up the dark side of contemporary private life. Such is the equation of the sovereign individual: psychic freedom and individual initiative = identity insecurities and the incapacity to act. p. 232 |
| LEFT* |
RIGHT |
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| Topology |
depressive |
paranoid-schizoid |
| Political style |
progressive |
proto-Dorian |
| Cognitive mode |
concrete & pre-op |
pre-op and gestural |
| Regime type |
rational-bureaucratic |
patrimonial |
| *Progressivism and liberalism are opposites, not twins. The genetic ontology of progressivism is bildung and the will to power; The genetic ontology of liberalism is nihilism. Today's liberalism is referred to as the left, thus covering over the genetic-ontological transformation of the post-war years (see Hall et. al.) The New Deal is not represented in the above figure and table, The Two-Party System: Semiotic Regimes. Donald Trump is an effect of this genetic-ontological transformation. |
Cognitive Modalities: a summary of sources |
| Psychometrics ("Q"): Flynn, Nisbett, Ceci; Hernstein and Murray •IQ tests
•PISA •MEAP |
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Evolutionary: Donald, Mind: cognitive evolution Table 7.1 p. 260
•episodic (primate)
•mimetic (homo erectus, h. sapients) •oral-mythic (h. sapiens sapiens) •theoretic (required by modern capitalism*) •post-theoretic (Foucault, Sellars, Deleuze) |
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Developmental: Piaget et. al.
•pre-operational
•concrete operrational •formal operational •post-formal thought (Commons) |
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Psychoanalytic: Freud-Klein: mechanisms of defense
•projection
•displacement •reaction formation •denial •identification |
| Cultural-historical: Vygotsky, Luria, Bruner, Flynn, Tomasello • zone of proximal development
• joint intentionality • intersubjectivity |
| Cognitive-linguistic Cardinality the Quantum Heterogeneity of Dasein in the context of Merlin Donald, A Mind so Rare, Table 7.1, p. 260 (Apologies to George Cantor) אi index of cognitive complexity (Ceci) |
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i=4 Internet and the Extended Mind
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i=3 Foucault (Kant Hegel Nietzsche)
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i=2 Formal operational
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i=1 Concrete operational
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i=0 Oral-mythic/pre-operational
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i=-1 Mimetic/gestural (homo erectus)
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i=-2 Primate semiosis
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| The Development of Children (Sixth Edition) by Cynthia Lightfoot, Michael Cole, and Sheila R. Cole Development Through the Lifespan, Laura E. Berk Jerome Kagan, The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development 2013 Piaget, Genetic Epistemology Stephen J. Ceci, On Intelligence: A Bioecological Treatise on Intellectual Development (Harvard, 1996) The term
intelligence is often used synonymously with "IQ", "g", or "general
intelligence", especially in some of the psychometric literature. .
. however, the ability to engage in cognitively complex behaviors
will be shown to be independent of IQ, g, or general intelligence . . .
cognitive complexity will be seen to be the more general of the two
notions and the one most theoretically important to keep in mind when
referring to intelligent behavior.22 f |
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The Quantum Heterogeniety of Dasein: Five Genetic Ontologies* (QHD-5) Five "principles of production of practices" (Bourdieu, In Other Words, 108)
*Miguel de Beistegui, Truth and genesis: philosophy as differential ontology (Indiana University Press, 2004) Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology |
I. primate II. paleolithic III. ressentiment & the mechanisms of defense IV. bildung & the will to power V. nihilism |
| cog culture |
formal op and concrete op bildung & the will to power |
MSNBC
& CNN
Fox News
| concrete op and pre op nihilism the modern corporation |
pre-op and gestural ressentiment & mech of defense Fox News ("conspiracy" "theories") rentier sectors, provincial capitals, patrimonial firms, old extractive industries, (Unger )new businesses outside cultural historical field of modern corporate sensibilities (see Mark Mizruchi, The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite (Harvard, 2013) |
| I. Primate |
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| fascism in the context of co-evolutionary theory |
III. Ressentiment & the Mechanisms of Defense
(despotic regime, white supremacy, fascism)
(despotic regime, white supremacy, fascism)
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| Nietzsche, Hegel, Vygotsky.
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the last man
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